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Post by angelislington on Jun 25, 2018 23:56:22 GMT
Busy defending the network with a friend of mine from the North... who's now learnt about rolling stock, line and signalling upgrades, driver salaries, timetabling vagaries... Just made me wonder what the commonest misunderstanding non-tubey people have about it. I think the one about having longer trains is the one I come up against most often.
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Post by angelislington on Dec 24, 2017 17:26:31 GMT
...it was on this day that the District Railway commenced services between South Kensington and what was then Westminster Bridge? That is such a random day to start services. I wonder why Christmas Eve, of all days? Did services run on Christmas Days back then?
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Post by angelislington on Dec 11, 2017 16:51:36 GMT
Hey guys, I know snoggle posted about this way back in 2016 but the thread's been locked by now - just wondered if anyone knew what the red, green and black rings meant on the stations when you show Station Changes? tubeheartbeat.com/london/Thanks!
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Post by angelislington on Dec 10, 2017 22:22:15 GMT
I have some Bakerloo Line ones from the 80s somewhere if you're interested? Donations to LTM. Thought it might take a bit of time for me to locate them!
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Post by angelislington on Dec 10, 2017 22:12:36 GMT
Has anyone got an update on how this is all progressing, please?
Top photos. I too am wondering how they did the tunnel-within-a-tunnel.
What can be seen at street level?
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Post by angelislington on Jul 29, 2014 22:08:04 GMT
Eep! I'm still here, I promise!
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Post by angelislington on May 29, 2013 20:54:35 GMT
I'd certainly be inclined to believe Fleetline, he doesn't often talk nonsense.
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Post by angelislington on Jan 20, 2013 7:14:03 GMT
We'll endeavour to report back Just hoping snow causes us no problems there or back. But I'm so looking forward to it!
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Post by angelislington on Nov 24, 2012 18:28:32 GMT
I remember smoking was allowed on the top deck of buses, and there would always be a smoking carriage on trains. I don't remember it on the Underground but I do remember smoking on Earls Court station in the open air in about 1994. I didn't realise smoking wasn't allowed anywhere; I'd only been living in London about 2 months. No-one told me off.
Anyway there always used to be a great camaraderie on the smoking carriages on trains, in fact I met a partner on one, coming back from college every day (about 1991). I don't remember the smell or litter or anything; not because I'm viewing through rose-tinted specs but simply because whatever was there was obviously so normal it never stuck in my head.
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Post by angelislington on Nov 24, 2012 17:56:25 GMT
Blimey, no-one seems to give a stuff about stopping for pedestrians.
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Post by angelislington on Nov 20, 2012 16:34:28 GMT
Eastcote, Stonebridge Park, Kenton, Elm Park: I reckon those would do for me. If someone said they were in London - on the LU system to boot - I know I'd doubt them.
I toyed with the idea of using Tough Nell Park as my userID on here when first signing up but thought it might frighten people. ;D (Also Colliers Would, Chorley Wouldn't.)
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Post by angelislington on Nov 20, 2012 15:58:03 GMT
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Post by angelislington on Nov 8, 2012 21:44:46 GMT
And you will be missed, Mr Wizard.
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Post by angelislington on Nov 8, 2012 7:08:54 GMT
52 stations on the Northern Line none of them is yours, one of them is mine
(I remember asking aaaages ago what the 52 stations were, because even when this song was released, in 1982, there weren't 52 stations.)
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Post by angelislington on Oct 7, 2012 11:53:59 GMT
...will run registry etc cleaner this aft,dont do that too often as it deletes all my passwords that I have difficulty remembering. You may find KeePass useful as a repository for all your passwords. One master password is needed. You can also set it to generate passwords, which means you can have super-secure passwords for things like Facebook, email and Banking. And when your AV software deletes all remembered passwords, you can just copy & paste them back in, from KeePass.
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Post by angelislington on Oct 6, 2012 11:52:47 GMT
Moogate. Now I challenge anyone reading this not to think of 'moogate' every time they go through Moorgate in the future. And don't forget Tottenham Cat Road.
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Post by angelislington on Aug 25, 2012 12:37:41 GMT
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Post by angelislington on Aug 23, 2012 6:49:09 GMT
<boggle> Gosh, keerde, that's awesome! Thank you so much. Welcome to the forum, btw
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Tsk
Aug 23, 2012 6:47:35 GMT
Post by angelislington on Aug 23, 2012 6:47:35 GMT
If I were cross about it, I'd have put this in the Rants area. I was more than !
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Tsk
Aug 18, 2012 0:41:13 GMT
Post by angelislington on Aug 18, 2012 0:41:13 GMT
No, silly, it's on the Met. Didn't you read the article? I thought so too. It made me think of somewhere like Goodge Street.
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Post by angelislington on Aug 17, 2012 22:59:18 GMT
Hopefully this will help you, and anyone else who wants to have a look at the tunnels themselves. This screenshot of google earth isn't great, but the area I have rubbed out is where I believe the tunnels to be. Rubbing the image out is not ideal, but its the best I could do so sorry! This is only a rough location, as when you are there on the tracks surrounded by trees and rubbish it is a bit disorientating and hard to know exactly where you are. I had a gander on Google Maps. If you plug in 51.646982,-0.398159 it will take you pretty much to the place you screengrabbed from Google Earth. Did you walk to it from the Wiggenhall Industrial Estate road (just to the north), or from the bit calling itself Wiggenhall Road Goods Yd (to the east)?
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Tsk
Aug 17, 2012 22:28:09 GMT
Post by angelislington on Aug 17, 2012 22:28:09 GMT
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Post by angelislington on Aug 16, 2012 2:07:39 GMT
Well well. I thought it would be part of the Met, given that more classical style seemed to be their thing. I had a look at Glouc Rd, but couldn't see any in the excellent photo on Wikipedia - unless that's some around the urns to top left and right? (What a beautiful station it is.) Good suggestion, TQ, I think I'm going to have to go down and look more closely. I have been looking through loads of photos of the original Leslie Green stations, and I really find very little in the way of photos of the booking halls, where the acanthus leaf made its way into a frieze usually at shoulder-height. The two I can find which perfectly illustrate this, frustratingly don't list the station/s concerned: Doug Rose's photo here and Mike Ashworth's here (which actually look like identical tiles to me, but then, tiles are supposed to be!). As an aside, this article says that the interior of Caledonian Rd station has a pomegranate frieze - but they don't look anything like pomegranates to me. I shall continue my search - thanks for the heads-up, slugabed, and nickf, that was useful to know in my searches online.
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Post by angelislington on Aug 11, 2012 12:04:41 GMT
What a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing that, caravelle.
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Post by angelislington on Aug 11, 2012 10:16:49 GMT
Recently, someone posted on another list I'm on,
Does anyone know of any stations that do?
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Post by angelislington on Jul 25, 2012 19:58:01 GMT
Well I never, I suppose AI will want one of these. ;D ;D ;D Me does indeed want! Wantywant! NOW!
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Post by angelislington on Jul 21, 2012 12:33:10 GMT
Hounslow Barracks? Ooh, tricky. However, I shall invoke Ardlington's triangulation theory, and posit East Putney.
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Post by angelislington on Jul 17, 2012 18:36:33 GMT
It's a good point, guys - why isn't the extra bit of platform barriered off?
(yes I know 'barriered' isn't a word, but I don't care. S'there.)
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squee!
Jun 20, 2012 20:42:04 GMT
Post by angelislington on Jun 20, 2012 20:42:04 GMT
Well chuffed, got a new phone (Galaxy SII) and have just set my text message alert to be the whistle from a 38ts ;D ;D
Anyone else have anything similar?
(Somehow my main phone alert is a test voice recording I did of me saying 'blahblahblahblahblaaah' - must amend!!)
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Post by angelislington on May 26, 2012 10:36:38 GMT
YES! I think that sounds like wicked fun ;D
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